Pacific, round 1

I love this so much more than the first try, it’s ridiculous. Lemons to lemonade…

It’s not rain; it’s the Pacific Ocean.

The waves are rolling. The sun is shining on the waves. It reminds me of Crafty Mom Weekend, watching the endlessly undulating ocean. (I wrote lyrics for a song that weekend, and the waves were in the lyrics, too. I sense a theme.)

I love working with beads. They’re so small, but they add such nice sparkle.

This is definitely a shawlette rather than a shawl. I had a fair amount of yarn left. I’m knitting this again with another skein of the same yarn, making it a bit bigger but still trying to keep it as a one skein project. I’m also fine-tuning a few things on it. I’ll eventually write up the pattern, and I’ll also do a video tutorial on adding beads. I like this “add as you go” method rather than pre-stringing all my beads at the beginning. Have you used beads in your knitting?

I haven’t tried beads, but I think I’d like to, sometime. A tutorial would be cool. Pre-stringing them all does sound like a bit of a pain, but don’t you then just slide them into place as you go? Adding them as you go along seems like it would interrupt the flow of the knitting.

The shawl is super pretty, though, and I’m always down for anything ocean related. 🙂

I haven’t used beads, but I’ve thought about it. Years ago I had a friend who did a lot of intricate bead knitting, and although I thought it was gorgeous, I was never inspired enough to try it. I’m not sure that I’m a bead person… meaning, that I think I like things a little less fancy. Beads seem more glamorous or dressy, and I like my knits to be every-day wearable. You know what I mean? I wouldn’t mind a few beads in the trim of a shawl, but that’s probably all I would do.

Beautiful waves. The fine beads make it pleasantly twinkle. You know me…I LOVE BEADs in shawl and add as I go. Beads add a wonderful drape to the fine lace and keep it on your shoulder. Very nice transformation 😀